Blogs 2 and 3 combined

 

I was extremely excited to finally have the opportunity to dive into my senior project. I didn’t know what was to come but I was excited nevertheless. My first day went like any other first day trying to get the reins of everything and understand what’s truly happening. I went on a meeting which center around a Venice Beach community Council. During that meeting I took notes as well as made judgments and assumptions based on the facts presented. These meetings really open my mind in my eyes into the world of allocating resources and making decisions based on community benefit. During the meeting I heard from many different influential people that work to house and allocate homelessness in the city of Venice. I’m currently working with my mentor on just getting a better understanding on a different facet of the world. My initial expectations were met and I was extremely excited and I felt immediate benefit from my experience.

Going to the next week I’m just extremely excited to get to work. Those meetings have not only taught me so much already but leaving so much to be desired. I have had such great opportunities so far and it has only been a short amount of time. The people that I’ve been learning under and watching over have been so influential and have made great careers and lives and are doing great benefits the community. I’m sure excited to get going on my next week where I will be joining more meetings and taking more notes with his experience behind me. Although although I’m only a week and I’ve already had my belief shaped into different ways and I am extremely excited to see how those will continue to change over the course of my hawken project.

The organization that I’m working with is called safe place for youth headquartered in Venice Beach California. They were the station focuses on how much less in the area and providing people who are homeless with food as well as living opportunities and hopefully future jobs. I think the main challenge for me so far has been keeping up with the lingo that is used to describe homeless people as well as the preconceived notations that come with homelessness in California. And then speech home business is among the greatest in the entire world what does that have to do with the warm weather or the beaches but in many cases there isn’t room for people who are homeless to benefit and grow and this economic system.